Tag: Hostage

A US hostage held by al Qaeda urged his wife in a video to contact American Jewish communities to call on US President Barack...

A gunman killed four hostages in southwestern Germany on Wednesday before presumably shooting himself while resisting eviction from his apartment building, police said. Police said...

An American aid worker abducted by al Qaeda in Pakistan last year has pleaded with US President Barack Obama to meet his captors’ demands...

The Pakistani Taliban have released two Swiss hostages kidnapped more than eight months ago while travelling through the country's volatile southwest, the army said...

Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) says that its ground team deputed for the task of 'meter checking' was held hostage by DC South Jamal...

Al-Qaeda’s north African branch warned Western states including France Thursday against a military bid to rescue hostages kidnapped in Mali, citing “information” of plans...

Sindh National Front Chairman Mumtaz Bhutto has said Begum Nusrat Bhutto had been kidnapped from Karachi and detained at Dubai for political objectives till...

Two US hikers accused Iran Sunday of using them as “hostages” in its power struggle with the West and described hearing the anguished cries...

Police in central China have detained a man for holding six women as sex slaves in an underground prison for two years, killing two...

Federal Minister for Professional and Technical Education Mian Riaz Hussain Pirzada on Wednesday rued the fact that the education system in Pakistan was not...

Pakistan Muslim League (PML-Q) has warned that the citizens would demand Pak-Army’s help if the Punjab government kept on failing to protect the life...

Malaysian police on Thursday shot in the head a man who took 30 pre-school children and four teachers hostage at a kindergarten, ending a...

A man took around 30 pre-school children hostage in Malaysia's southern Johor state on Thursday, said police, adding they were in talks to end...

Social activists Ansar Burney has said that the release of all the hostages would be secured from Somali pirates by June 2. Talking to a...

China's Foreign Ministry on Wednesday denied that any of the country's citizens was held hostage in an attack by Taliban militants on a Pakistani...

Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ebad Khan hopes that the four Pakistani crew members being held captive by Somali pirates would be back home soon....

JERUSALEM - Israeli diplomacy, which is already engaged in an uphill battle to defend the Jewish state from international criticism, is facing a new threat: a strike by diplomats who say they are penniless. Foreign ministry employees began protesting a year ago, but have recently toughened their stance, launching a staff strike which has seriously hampered operations at both the ministry and at Israeli embassies around the world.
"Since December 27, we are no longer helping with